evolution and human lives. Although this process does destroy the positive sanskaras, Negative sanskaras must also disappear before enlightenment it results in the formation of the negative sanskaras which, in their own way, condition the mind and create a new problem. The assertion of “no, no” has to be sufficiently powerful to effect the eradication of all the physical, subtle and mental sanskaras; but after it has served its purpose, it has to be ultimately abandoned. The finality of spiritual experience does not consist of a bare negation. To bring it under a negative formula is to limit it by means of an intellectual concept. The negative formula has to be used by the mind to decondition itself, but it must be renounced before the ultimate goal of life can be attained. Thought has to be made use of in order to overcome the limitations set up by its own movement, but when this is done, it has itself to be given up. This amounts to the process of going beyond the mind, and this becomes possible through non-identification with the mind or its desires. To look objectively upon the body as well as all thoughts and lower impulses, is to get established in blissful detachment and to negate all the sanskaras. This means freeing the soul from its self-imposed illusions like “I am the body,” “I am the mind” or “I am desire” and gaining ground towards the enlightened state of “I am God,” “Anal Haqq,” or “Aham Brahmasmi.”

Part II
THE DISPERSION AND EXHAUSTION OF SANSKARAS

IN the last chapter I have explained those methods of removing sanskaras which depend chiefly on the principle of negating the positive sanskaras which veil the Truth from consciousness Negation of sanskaras attained through control and prevent self-illumination, for which the whole creation came into being. All these methods of negating the positive sanskaras are ultimately based upon the control of the body and mind. Control of the habitual tendencies of the mind is much more difficult than control of physical actions. The fleeting and evasive thoughts and desires of the mind can be curbed only with great patience and persistent practice. But the restraint of mental processes and reactions is necessary to check the formation of new sanskaras and to wear out or unwind the old sanskaras of which they are expressions. Though control might be difficult at the beginning, through sincere effort it gradually becomes natural and easy of achievement.
Control is deliberate and involves effort as long as the mind is trying to decondition itself through the re-